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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
29 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of working at senior management level in large complex environment.
- Experience
Proven experience of leading and delivering against key national performance standards in elective, urgent and acute care pathways.
- Experience
Experience of working on and leading on complex business change processes.
- Experience
Demonstrable expertise in clinical, service and business management functions including in the application of HR and finance to achieve outcomes in agreed timeframes.
- Experience
Experience of working at a very senior level with a multi professional group of staff.
- Other Requirements
Able to fulfil the Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary) including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.
- Personal Qualities
Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst supporting and getting the most out of staff.
- Personal Qualities
High level of organisation, self-motivation and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- Personal Qualities
Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the leadership role.
- Communication Skills
Proven strong communication skills, in particular, in building and managing interpersonal and team relationships, with strong and effective listening skills.
- Communication Skills
Able to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences using a range of different approaches.
- Communication Skills
Able to communicate complex and contentious information to individuals and groups.
- Information Technology
Able to use computerised systems and media including Microsoft office and health related tools.
- Qualifications and Training
First degree or equivalent NHS management experience and evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Qualifications and Training
Masters degree in leadership or management or relevant subject or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Qualifications and Training
Post-graduate management qualification or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Qualifications and Training
Evidence of sustained and continuous professional development
- Strategic and Analytical Skills
Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
- Strategic and Analytical Skills
Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line".
- Strategic and Analytical Skills
A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.
- Strategic and Analytical Skills
Able to analyse and interpret highly complex facts and situations.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to lead the redesign of services to ensure they are delivered to the highest standard and are cost effective.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to lead change with and through the Trust's senior clinical team, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to engage and fully involve senior staff in the redesign of patient pathways.
- Leadership and Management Skills
A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Ability to work constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful collaborations.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Able to effectively influence and negotiate.
- Leadership and Management Skills
Able to deliver to reports and presentations to deadlines and manage a diverse and complex workload to competing timescales.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
There are five Director of Operations posts within Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT). The post holders will play a key role in the delivery of high quality clinical services and will support a number of Clinical Service Units (CSUs) in the delivery of the Trust objectives, with a particular focus on achievement against the agreed CSU Delivery Contracts. This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious and passionate about patient care, and who have a desire to influence at the highest levels working in close partnership with senior clinical and managerial staff. To succeed in this role, candidates need to be able to build confidence across the organisation and CSUs as well as with external partners.
Main duties of the job
First degree or equivalent NHS management experience and evidence of practical application of expertise at this level. Experience of working at senior management level in large complex environment. Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations. Ability to lead the redesign of services to ensure they are delivered to the highest standard and are cost effective. Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst supporting and getting the most out of staff. Able to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences using a range of different approaches Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 02 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 9
- Salary: £112,782 to £1,297,836 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 002001
- Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Name Tim Hiles Position Chief Operating Officer Email tim.hiles@nhs.net Phone number Shortlisting Date: 14th September Interview Date: 12th October
Job Summary
There are five Director of Operations posts within Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT). The post holders will play a key role in the delivery of high quality clinical services and will support a number of Clinical Service Units (CSUs) in the delivery of the Trust objectives, with a particular focus on achievement against the agreed CSU Delivery Contracts. This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious and passionate about patient care, and who have a desire to influence at the highest levels working in close partnership with senior clinical and managerial staff.
To succeed in this role, candidates need to be able to build confidence across the organisation and CSUs as well as with external partners.
Why you should join our Team
The successful applicant will be one of five Directors of Operations within the Trust. The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of high-quality clinical services, the Trust’s commitments and objectives.
In addition, you will provide leadership, guidance and support to a defined portfolio of CSU’s, through the integrated accountability framework, reporting monthly to the executive Team, in the development of transformational plans.
This role requires individuals who are driven, ambitious and passionate about patient care, and who have a desire to influence at the highest levels working in close partnership with senior clinical and managerial staff.
We are seeing a visible leader with a recent track record of strong operational service delivery in a complex healthcare environment. You will have an open and transparent leadership style with extensive experience of delivering performance, improvement and service change.
What you will bring to the role
First degree or equivalent NHS management experience and evidence of practical application of expertise at this level. Experience of working at senior management level in large complex environment. Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations. Ability to lead the redesign of services to ensure they are delivered to the highest standard and are cost effective. Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst supporting and getting the most out of staff. Able to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences using a range of different approaches
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
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